February 17, 1918

26302
DIRECTIVE
TO THE COMMISSAR OF THE NIKOLAYEV STATION
February 17, 1918

To the Commissar of the Nikolayev Station¹

I request that you provide a sleeping berth in first class (car no. 242) in the train departing at 8 p.m. for Kharkov on February 17, 1918, for the seriously ill Maria Nikolayevna Skrypnik—Secretary of the Council of People's Commissars, who is traveling to Kiev for recovery.²

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

Printed from typewritten copy

¹ Now the Moscow Station of the October Railway in Leningrad.
² On the same day, V. I. Lenin signed an open letter from the Council of People's Commissars requesting all possible assistance be provided to the patient M. N. Skrypnik, who was proceeding on leave to Kiev via Kharkov.

26304
DIRECTIVE
ON THE MANAGEMENT OF AFFAIRS
OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS
May 9, 1918
Moscow

Today, May 9, 1918, a telegram was brought to me from the Secretariat from Siberia dated April 25, 1918.¹

I was shown this telegram only yesterday.

Meanwhile, this telegram is of a r c h i v a l  i m p o r t a n c e, as a reply to my telegram dated April 23, 1918.²

Therefore I declare to all employees, secretaries, and those above them in the Management of Affairs of the Council of People's Commissars:

a r e p r i m a n d

and I warn that the next time responsibility will be stricter.